Professor Sriram Vishwanath wins NSF CAREER Award
January 28, 2005
Prof. Sriram Vishwanath, the newest member of the Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG) who
joined us from Stanford University, received the
prestigious National Science Foundation's CAREER award
this year. This award has been granted to Prof.
Vishwanath to support his research plan, which is on
finding mechanisms to enable cooperative communication
in wireless networks. These mechanisms include
node-clustering, multi-hopping and distributed
compression. The grant accompanying this award will
fund his research for the next five years.
The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards for new faculty members. The CAREER program recognizes and supports the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who are most likely to become the academic leaders of the 21st century. CAREER awardees are selected on the basis of creative, career-development plans that effectively integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their institution.
Dr. Vishwanath joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and WNCG in January 2004 as an Assistant Professor. He received his B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, M.S. from CalTech and his Ph.D. from Stanford University, all in electrical engineering. His research interests include information theory, wireless communications, coding theory and bioinformatics. His industry experience includes work at the National Semiconductor Corporation, CA and at the Lucent Bell labs, NJ.
